I'm alive, but simply not inspired

No posts for a couple of days, but what’s to write about? The political world continues on its dreadful course, Greenwich real estate has yet to awake from its Thanksgiving — MLK Day slumber, though that should change next week.

In the meantime, there’s an article from Maine saying that that states’ real estate market is booming (behind a cash wall, so not worth the link). I suspect that the phenomenon will be short lived, because Maine residents have replaced their governor of eight years, Paul LePage, with a Democrat, and given her an overwhelming majority of Democrats in both houses to whoop through new taxes: already, 3,000 (!) proposed new laws have been rushed into the legislative hopper, bills that have doubtless been stuck in desk drawers during the previous eight years of frustration.

LePage and Republicans took control of a state hopelessly in debt and mired in recession and in eight years wiped out the deficit, built a surplus and dropped taxes, while unemployment and welfare rolls sank to all-time lows. The very people who moved to Maine to take advantage of those new job opportunities have now grasped control of the legislature and are determined to undo everything that was gained.

Not much different than what’s going on in Washington.